Cleansing Compositions Patented by Colgate

US Patent No. 11,459,527 B2 (Arturo Zuniga, Claudia Bentosa, Henry Pena); Colgate-Palmolive Company has been awarded a patent for a cleansing composition comprising an aqueous solution of an anionic polymer; a nonionic polymer; and a phase-stabilizing amount of surfactants comprising a combination of at least one anionic surfactant and at least one nonionic surfactant wherein the nonionic surfactant comprises a C8-C22 tertiary amine oxide or a fatty acid amide. The solution comprises two distinct aqueous phases having different composition and density and the two distinct phases are comprised all of one of the anionic polymer or the nonionic polymer. The nonionic polymer comprises polyethylene glycol having a molecular weight of 5kD to 10kD in an amount of 0.1-10 wt.% of the composition. The anionic polymer is an acidic polymer selected from a polyacrylate made of homopolymers or co-polymers of a combination of acrylic acid derivatives or a synthetic anionic linear polycarboxylate. The acidic polymer is present in an amount of 5-25 wt.% of the composition.